IRVINE, Calif. –Please join Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio as they conduct their annual August Hong Kong auction from August 19-21 at the Mira Hong Kong in Kowloon. The sale will showcase three sessions of Asian coins and currency, and includes everything from ancient Chinese coins through Soviet-era issues to modern Chinese issues, foreign coins, and Asian paper money.

Session H will take place on Monday, August 19 at 9:30am HKT and contains more than 650 lots of modern Chinese and foreign coins. Noteworthy lots include a low mintage Chinese 500 Yuan displaying the Peacocks design graded PCGS Proof-68 Deep Cameo and a Korean Warn of Year 497 (1888)—the first modern machine struck dollar of Korea. Session I is slated for Tuesday, August 20 at 9:30am HKT and will cover ancient Chinese coins through to Soviet-era issues, including several lots of medals and tokens, orders and decorations, and Sycee and ingots. Among Chinese pattern issues is a Pattern Tael struck in silver in Year 29 (1903). A design that was never adopted for official use in circulation, this pattern coin is of the utmost rarity and, in a PCGS SP-63 Secure Holder, will be an excellent addition to any advanced cabinet.

Session J is scheduled for Wednesday, August 21 at 9:30am HKT and will showcase a phenomenal selection of Asian paper money. There are a number of significant pieces set to cross the auction block during this session, like the sensational Emperor Huang-ti Bank of China One Hundred Dollar Specimen note. This stunning note is the finer of only two pieces graded by PMG and, in Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ, is sure to see healthy competition. Additional highlights include the very rare Hong Kong National Bank of China Limited 1894 Five Dollars, an outstanding large format Malaya & British Borneo Ten Thousand Dollar Specimen, and the monumentally rare Thai King Rama VII 1933 1,000 Baht Specimen.

Two additional internet-only sessions containing world coins and paper money will close on Tuesday, August 28 at 9:00am HKT.

Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio is currently accepting consignments for the Official Auction of the November 2013 Whitman Coin and Collectibles Baltimore Expo, the January 2014 International sale that will take place in New York, and the April 2014 Hong Kong auction.

All lot descriptions and images in the August 2013 Hong Kong auction can be viewed online at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries website, www.stacksbowers.com. Printed catalogs are available upon request by calling 800.458.4646. Online bidding and pre-auction bids will be accepted at www.stacksbowers.com; by e-mail at auction@stacksbowers.com; by phone at 800.458.4646; by fax at 949.253.4091; and by postal mail addressed to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, August HK 2013, 1063 McGaw, Irvine, CA, 92614. Interested bidders are also encouraged to view lots onsite in Chicago in August and bid in-person at the live auction, or live online through the Stack’s Bowers Galleries website. A complete auction and lot viewing schedule is available at www.stacksbowers.com or by calling 800.458.4646.

About Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio

Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio is the world and ancients auction division of Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a division of Fortune 500 Company Spectrum Group International. It was founded in 1982 as Ponterio & Associates by Richard Ponterio,

renowned specialist in world and ancient numismatics, who is now executive vice president of Stack’s Bowers Galleries. Past auctions have included such notable coin collections as the Wa She Wong Collection, the John S. Davenport Collection, the Witte Museum Collection, the Amat Collection, the Joe Lasser Collection, and the James Hunnicut Collection. Distinguished paper money collections include the East Bay Collection of International Bank Notes, and the Eduard Kann Chinese Bank Note Collection, along with treasure collections from the shipwrecks “Nicobar,” “Rooswijk,” and “Capitana.”

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